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Equal Justice Works Fellow Aparna Garg’s letter to the editor was published in response to a Time magazine column by Joel Stein, “My Own Private India,” (July 5), https://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1999416,00.html

As an attorney for South Asian immigrant workers in New Jersey, I am offended by Stein’s failed attempt to poke fun at Indian Americans through racist stereotypes. Three decades ago, New Jersey’s Indian American community faced a wave of hate violence, including murder, which led to the passage of the state’s hate-crimes law. Hate violence is never a laughing matter.

Aparna Garg,

Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund

Newark, NJ